Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 by Various
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placing her name in the same rank by those of Lady Morgan, Madame
Tussaud, Mrs. Glasse, the Invisible Lady, and other national ornaments of the feminine species.--[PUNCH. Russl Squear, July 14. Dear PA,--I nose yew will he angxious to ear how I get on sins I left the wing of the best of feathers. I am appy to say I am hear in a very respeckble fammaly, ware they keeps too tawl footmen to my hand; one of them is cawld John, and the other Pea-taw,--the latter is as vane as a P-cock of his leggs, wich is really beutyful, and puffickly streight--though the howskeaper ses he has bad angles; but some pipple loox at things with only 1 i, and sea butt there defex. Mr. Wheazey is the ass-matick butler and cotchman, who has lately lost his heir, and can't get no moar, wich is very diffycult after a serting age, even with the help of Rowland's Madagascar isle. Mrs. Tuffney, the howsekeaper, is a prowd and oystere sort of person. I rather suspex that she's jellows of me and Pea-taw, who as bean throwink ship's i's at me. She thinks to look down on me, but she can't, for I hold myself up; and though we brekfists and t's at the same _board_, I treat with a _deal_ of _hot-tar_, and shoes her how much I dispeyses her supper-silly-ous conduck. Besides these indyvidules, there's another dome-stick, wich I wish to menshun particlar--wich is the paige Theodore, that, as the poat says, as bean "--contrived a double debt to pay, A _paige_ at night--a _tigger_ all the day." In the mornink he's a tigger, drest in a tite froc-cote, top-boots, buxkin smawl-closes, and stuck up behind Master Ahghustusses cab. In the heavening he gives up the tigger, and comes out as the paige, in a fansy jackit, with |
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